Eugenic nation [[electronic resource] ] : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / / Alexandra Minna Stern

• Autore: Stern Alexandra
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.9/2/09794
• Soggetto topico: Eugenics - United States - History; Eugenics - California - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco; 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the U.S.-Mexican Border; 3. Instituting Eugenics in California; 4. California's Eugenic Landscapes; 5. Centering Eugenics on the Family; 6. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960's; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts-for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979-as it explores the influence of eugenics on phenomena as varied as race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, tropical
• Titolo autorizzato: Eugenic nation
• ISBN: 1-282-76322-9; 9786612763229; 0-520-93866-6; 1-59875-583-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450357803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American crossroads ; ; 17.